Bermudan authorities opened shelters and announced schools and offices would be closed Friday.
in Puerto Rico — and then hitting the Dominican Republic and Turks and Caicos Islands — Hurricane Fiona was scheduled to pass close to Bermuda late Thursday as a Category 4 storm. Bermudan authorities were opening shelters and announced schools and offices would be closed Friday.had maximum sustained winds of 130 mph. It was centered about 305 miles southwest of Bermuda, heading northeast at 20 mph.
It's expected to still be a large and dangerously potent storm when it reaches Canada's Atlantic provinces, likely late Friday, as a post-tropical cyclone. U.S. President Joe Biden and FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell take part in a briefing on Hurricane Fiona's impact on Puerto Rico in New York on Sept. 22, 2022.President Biden, meanwhile, said Thursday the full force of the federal government is ready to help Puerto Rico recover from the devastation of Hurricane Fiona.
Biden said his message to the people of Puerto Rico who are still hurting from Hurricane Maria five years ago is,"We're with you. We're not going to walk away." Neither local nor federal government officials had provided an overall estimate of damage from the storm, which dropped up to 30 inches of rain in some areas.after the hurricane ripped into the U.S. territory, and frustration was mounting for people like Nancy Galarza, who tried to signal for help from work crews she spotted in the distance.
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